New Moon Calendar 2027: All 13 Dates, Times and Zodiac Signs

The 2027 new moon calendar at a glance

Every new moon of 2027, in order. The moment of the new moon is a single instant worldwide, so the clock time changes with your time zone but the event does not. Eastern and Pacific are given; for Central subtract one hour from Eastern, for Mountain subtract two.

All 13 new moons of 2027, in US Eastern and Pacific time

Date	Eastern	Pacific	Sign	Note
Thu, Jan 7	3:24 p.m. EST	12:24 p.m. PST	Capricorn	First of the year
Sat, Feb 6	10:56 a.m. EST	7:56 a.m. PST	Aquarius	Annular solar eclipse
Mon, Mar 8	4:29 a.m. EST	1:29 a.m. PST	Pisces	—
Tue, Apr 6	7:51 p.m. EDT	4:51 p.m. PDT	Aries	First after DST starts
Thu, May 6	6:58 a.m. EDT	3:58 a.m. PDT	Taurus	—
Fri, Jun 4	3:40 p.m. EDT	12:40 p.m. PDT	Gemini	—
Sat, Jul 3	11:02 p.m. EDT	8:02 p.m. PDT	Cancer	July 4 in UTC
Mon, Aug 2	6:05 a.m. EDT	3:05 a.m. PDT	Leo	Total solar eclipse
Tue, Aug 31	1:41 p.m. EDT	10:41 a.m. PDT	Virgo	Black Moon
Wed, Sep 29	10:36 p.m. EDT	7:36 p.m. PDT	Libra	Sep 30 in UTC
Fri, Oct 29	9:36 a.m. EDT	6:36 a.m. PDT	Scorpio	Closest to Samhain
Sat, Nov 27	10:24 p.m. EST	7:24 p.m. PST	Sagittarius	Nov 28 in UTC
Mon, Dec 27	3:12 p.m. EST	12:12 p.m. PST	Capricorn	Last of the year

Why does 2027 have 13 new moons?

Because the lunar cycle is shorter than the calendar month. One new moon to the next averages about 29.53 days, while the average calendar month runs 30.44 days. That gap of roughly eleven days a year accumulates, and every two or three years it buys an extra new moon.

In 2027 the first new moon arrives early, on January 7. Thirteen cycles of 29.5 days from there still fit inside the year, and the last one lands on December 27 with days to spare. The cycles in 2027 alternate between 29 and 30 days apart — the moon's orbit is an ellipse, so it does not run on a metronome.

When is the first new moon of 2027?

Thursday, January 7, 2027, at 3:24 p.m. Eastern — 12:24 p.m. Pacific. It falls at 17 degrees of Capricorn, which is the practical, structural end of that sign rather than the ambitious opening stretch. If you set one intention all year, this is the conventional place to set it: the first dark moon after the calendar turns.

It is worth saying plainly that January 7 is a Thursday afternoon. Most people reading this will be at work. The moment itself is not something you have to catch — see the section on timing below.

The Black Moon of August 2027

August 2027 has two new moons, on August 2 and August 31, and the second one is what most people now call a Black Moon. It is the new moon's counterpart to a Blue Moon: the same calendar quirk, the opposite phase.

This is worth knowing for what it is and what it isn't. A Black Moon is not an astronomical category. It is an artifact of our calendar — the month is 31 days, the lunar cycle is 29.5, so occasionally two fit. There is no additional darkness, no rarer alignment, nothing measurable that separates August 31 from any other new moon. It comes around every 29 months or so on average.

There is also more than one definition in circulation. The monthly one — second new moon in a calendar month — is the one that applies here. A seasonal Black Moon means the third new moon in a season that has four, which is a different event on a different schedule. If a source tells you 2027's Black Moon is on some other date, check which definition it is using before assuming one of you is wrong. We unpack the same confusion on the full-moon side in what a Blue Moon really is.

The new moon that becomes an eclipse

Every solar eclipse happens at a new moon, because an eclipse is simply a new moon that lines up precisely enough to cross in front of the Sun. Most new moons pass a little above or below, and nothing happens. In 2027, two of them line up.

February 6, 2027 brings an annular solar eclipse — the Moon is too far from Earth to cover the Sun completely, so a ring of light remains. It is not visible from the United States.

August 2, 2027 is the one astronomers have been circling for decades. Totality runs up to 6 minutes and 23 seconds near Luxor, Egypt, the longest land-based totality of this century. The path crosses southern Spain, North Africa and the Middle East. From the United States you will see essentially nothing — a sliver of partial eclipse at the far eastern tip of Maine, and that is all. Our full breakdown of all five is in the 2027 eclipse calendar.

If you work with moons ritually, the honest note is that an eclipse new moon behaves differently in practice from an ordinary one. Many traditions hold off on intention-setting during eclipses and simply observe. Others treat them as the strongest openings of the year. There is no way to settle that from the outside; both positions are old and both are held sincerely.

Do you have to do the ritual at the exact time?

No. The new moon is an instant, but the dark phase around it runs for roughly three days, and every practical tradition works with the window rather than the second. If the table says 4:29 a.m., you are not getting up at 4:29 a.m.

The working rule most people land on: anytime from the moment of the new moon through the following 48 hours is unambiguously new-moon territory. Some practitioners also count the 24 hours before, treating the last of the dark as release and the time after as planting. If you want the reasoning on timing in more depth — moon phase against weekday against planetary hour — that is laid out in the best time for a spell.

Can you see a new moon?

Essentially no, and that is the definition rather than a limitation. At new moon the lit hemisphere faces the Sun and the side turned toward Earth is unlit. The Moon is also in the daytime sky, rising and setting with the Sun, so it is lost in glare even in principle.

What you can see is the first thin crescent a day or two later, low in the west just after sunset. In several calendars — Hebrew, Islamic and traditional Hellenic among them — that first visible crescent, not the astronomical conjunction, is what begins the month. The Greek observance of that moment is covered in our piece on Noumenia, the Hellenic new moon.

New moon vs dark moon: are they the same?

They overlap but they are not used the same way. New moon is the astronomical term for the exact conjunction — the instant in the table above. Dark moon is a practitioner's term for the stretch of genuinely moonless nights leading up to it, usually the last day or three before the conjunction.

The distinction matters because the two are worked differently. The dark moon before is traditionally for endings, banishing, rest and divination. The new moon itself and the days after are for beginnings. Collapsing them into one thing is why some people find new moon intention-setting falls flat — they are doing planting work in the part of the cycle that is for clearing.

The three parts of the dark phase, and what each is traditionally for

Phase	When	Traditionally used for
Dark moon	1–3 days before the table time	Endings, release, banishing, rest, divination
New moon	The instant in the table, plus ~48 hours	Intentions, beginnings, first steps, planting
Waxing crescent	Days 3–7 after	Building, tending, following through

What to do on each new moon of 2027, by sign

The sign a new moon falls in is the conventional way of narrowing a vague intention into a specific one. It is a prompt, not a prescription — the point is that "set an intention" is too broad to act on, and a sign gives it an edge.

• Jan 7 — Capricorn: structure, the unglamorous first step, what you will do weekly rather than what you want by December.
• Feb 6 — Aquarius (eclipse): the group, the network, the thing you have been doing alone that does not have to be alone.
• Mar 8 — Pisces: rest, imagination, the creative thing with no deliverable attached.
• Apr 6 — Aries: starting. The one you have been circling. Smallest possible version, this week.
• May 6 — Taurus: money, the body, the home. Slow and material.
• Jun 4 — Gemini: learning, writing, the conversation you have been avoiding.
• Jul 3 — Cancer: home and family, rest as a practice rather than a collapse.
• Aug 2 — Leo (eclipse): visibility and the creative work you make anyway. Observe rather than launch, if eclipses give you pause.
• Aug 31 — Virgo (Black Moon): the systems underneath. Health routines, admin, the second draft of the August 2 intention.
• Sep 29 — Libra: partnership, fairness, what a balanced arrangement would actually look like.
• Oct 29 — Scorpio: the honest inventory. Falls days before Samhain, which is the same work in a different vocabulary.
• Nov 27 — Sagittarius: the bigger question, travel, study, the long view.
• Dec 27 — Capricorn: the year's last opening. Closes the loop the January 7 moon opened.

Two Capricorn new moons bookending the same year is a genuinely useful piece of symmetry: whatever you set on January 7, December 27 is the natural place to look at it honestly. If you want a full step-by-step for the evening itself, we have one in the new moon ritual guide, and the candle-specific version in working the new moon candle cycle.

Which 2027 new moon is your reset?

Three questions. No email, nothing stored — the answer appears below.

What we hear in the shop

We are not going to put invented names and testimonials on this page. What we can report is the pattern in what people actually write to us and ask at the counter, in aggregate.

The most common message about new moons is not "it didn't work." It is some version of "I set the intention and then forgot about it by the following week." That is a structural problem rather than a spiritual one, and it is why the seven-day burn keeps coming up in our answers — not because the candle does the work, but because an object in the room is harder to forget than a note in a journal.

The second most common: people arrive looking for the exact minute, convinced they have missed it. Almost nobody has. The window is days wide.

What we don't promise

The astronomical data on this page is calculable and we stand behind it: the dates, the times, the zodiac degrees and the eclipse facts are computed and cross-checked, and we will correct anything shown to be wrong.

Everything past that is tradition, not mechanism. We do not claim that a new moon makes an intention more likely to happen, that a particular sign improves your odds in that area of life, or that timing a decision to the lunar cycle changes the outcome. There is no evidence for any of that, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What a dated calendar reliably does is give you a recurring, externally scheduled prompt to sit down and look at what you are doing — thirteen of them in 2027. That is a real benefit and it is the one we will actually defend.

Nothing here is medical, psychological or financial advice, and no ritual on this page is a substitute for any of those.

Practically: how to work with this

1. Put all thirteen in your calendar now, as all-day events rather than timed ones. The window is what matters, not the minute.
2. Set a reminder the evening before, not the day of. Most missed new moons are missed because they arrive mid-workday.
3. Write the intention where you will see it. A phone note you never reopen is the most common failure point.
4. Use the sign as a narrowing question, not a rule. "What would the Taurus version of this be?" is more useful than a generic intention.
5. Check the previous one before setting the next. Thirteen openings is only an advantage if each one reviews the last.
6. Decide your eclipse policy in advance for February 6 and August 2, so you are not improvising on the day.

If you are assembling the year's practice rather than a single evening, our intention candles and the seven-day vigil candles are the two categories most of this work runs on.

Frequently asked questions

How many new moons are there in 2027?

Thirteen, counted in US Eastern time. Twelve months each have one new moon, and August has two — August 2 and August 31. In time zones far enough east the count and the dates shift slightly, because the conjunction can fall either side of midnight locally.

When is the Black Moon in 2027?

Tuesday, August 31, 2027 at 1:41 p.m. EDT, using the common definition of a second new moon falling in the same calendar month. It is a calendar coincidence rather than an astronomical event, and it happens roughly every 29 months.

Why does my calendar show a different date than yours?

Almost always a time zone difference. Four of the 2027 new moons fall close enough to midnight that the date flips: July 3 in US time is July 4 in UTC, September 29 is September 30, and November 27 is November 28. Check which zone your source is using before assuming an error.

Is a new moon a good time to start something?

Traditionally yes — the dark-to-waxing turn is the conventional moment for beginnings across many practices. There is no evidence that lunar timing changes outcomes. What a fixed date does provide is a scheduled prompt to actually begin, which is a real and ordinary benefit.

Can you see the new moon in the sky?

No. The lit side faces the Sun, and the Moon is in the daytime sky alongside it. The first thing you can see is the thin crescent one or two evenings later, low in the west after sunset.

Which 2027 new moons are solar eclipses?

Two. February 6 is an annular eclipse, not visible from the United States, and August 2 is a total eclipse with up to 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality over North Africa and the Middle East. From the US, only a sliver of partial eclipse at the far eastern tip of Maine.

How long does a new moon last?

The conjunction itself is a single instant. The visibly dark phase around it runs about three days, and most practices treat the new moon window as the moment of conjunction plus the following 48 hours.

What is the difference between a new moon and a dark moon?

New moon is the astronomical conjunction — the exact time listed above. Dark moon is a practitioner's term for the moonless days immediately before it. The dark moon is traditionally worked for release and endings, the new moon for beginnings.

Sources & further reading

• New moon times computed from the JPL DE421 planetary ephemeris (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) using the Skyfield astronomy library, and converted to US Eastern and Pacific time including daylight saving. Cross-checked against published 2027 moon-phase tables.
• NASA, Solar Eclipse Page — eclipse circumstances and paths (accessed 2026).
• Sky & Telescope, planning coverage for the August 2, 2027 total solar eclipse, 2026.
• Espenak, F. and Meeus, J., Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Technical Publication, 2006 — the standard reference for eclipse dates and durations.
• Meeus, J., Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd ed., Willmann-Bell, 1998 — the lunation calculations underlying the phase times.

Times are given in US Eastern and Pacific and include daylight saving where it applies. If you find a discrepancy with an authoritative source, tell us and we will check it and correct the page.